Mira Murati's Thinking Machines is researching full-duplex voice AI that can listen and speak simultaneously, tackling one of the biggest UX gaps in current voice assistants and synthetic speech systems.
A new arXiv paper shows that grid-based spatial priming significantly outperforms traditional semantic prompting when extracting data from charts with LLMs, offering a simple yet powerful technique for multimodal accuracy.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued a formal alert to financial institutions on the escalating risks from deepfake-enabled fraud, urging stronger detection, authentication, and customer protection measures across the sector.
A new interpretability technique uses natural language autoencoders to translate opaque LLM internal activations into human-readable explanations, opening fresh approaches to AI transparency and synthetic content analysis.
Alphabet is preparing a yen-denominated bond issuance to help finance its surging AI infrastructure costs, signaling how hyperscalers are diversifying debt markets to fund the global GPU and data center buildout.
ByteDance is boosting 2026 capital expenditure by 25% as AI infrastructure and memory chip costs surge, signaling intensified compute investment from the TikTok parent and a major force in AI video generation.
A new measure-theoretic framework unifies diffusion, score-based, and flow matching generative models — the mathematical backbone of modern AI video and image synthesis systems.
GetReal Security is doubling down on deepfake detection with a new Forensics Spotlight capability and an RPO partnership aimed at scaling identity-security defenses against AI-generated impersonation attacks.
A deep dive into designing data labeling pipelines for content moderation systems—critical infrastructure for detecting harmful synthetic media, deepfakes, and policy-violating AI-generated content at scale.
Synthetic deepfakes are driving a wave of financial fraud, pushing banks to deploy new biometric and liveness detection systems as customer funds face escalating risk from voice cloning and face-swap attacks.
European Union lawmakers have agreed to prohibit AI tools designed to create non-consensual sexualised deepfakes, marking one of the most significant regulatory moves yet against synthetic media abuse.
A Beijing-based AI lab is reportedly closing in on a $20 billion valuation as Western investors increasingly pivot toward Chinese frontier model developers amid surging competition with US labs.